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To keep in slavery; to enslave. And which more blest who chained his country, say Or he whose virtue sighed to lose a day Pope.

A candlestick, lamp, stand, gas fixture, or the like, having several branches; esp., one hanging from the ceiling.

One of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in Palestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus, Zizyphus Spina-Christi, and Z. vulgaris. The last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns.

state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine. Yet blest that fate which did his arms dispose Her land to civilize, as to subdue. Dryden

A cobblestone. "Their slings held cobbles round." Fairfax.

Cobblestone. [Prov. Eng.]

A cobblestone. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

gs and actions in fit time and place. Sir J. Davies. Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit. Milton. Comeliness signifies something less forcible than beauty, less elegant than grace, and less light than prettiness. Johnson.

A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed.

Capable of being comprehended, included, or comprised. Lest this part of knowledge should seem to any not comprehensible by axiom, we will set down some heads of it. Bacon.

ncerning; to judge; to decide. But no frail man, however great or high, Can be concluded blest before he die. Addison. Is it concluded he shall be protector Shak.

ng; as, the confirmation of an appointment. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim. Cowper.

Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited. Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate. Shak.

Originally, a part of the palestra, or gymnasium among the Greeks; either the place where sand was stored for use in sprinkling the wrestlers, or the wrestling ground itself. Hence, a part of the orchestra of the Greek theater.

together; to convoke. And now the almighty father of the gods Convenes a council in the blest abodes. Pope.

To deceive; to cheat; to trick. [Obs.] Take heed, Signor Baptista, lest you be cony-catched in the this business. Shak.

excitement or passion; to become more moderate. I will not give myself liberty to think, lest I should cool. Congreve.

Cuckolded. [R.] "My being cornuted." LEstrange.

, an instrument by which hair or any textile fabric is crisped. -- Crisping pin, the simplest form of crisping iron. Is. iii. 22.

A crusader. [Obs.] The conquesta of the croises extending over Palestine. Burke.